a Southern horror
grit-horror anthology feature film (2024)
The Story
Adelaide, a destitute young woman is lured to a strange and ominous 1980s portable computer in a luggable case.
The seemingly possessed device propels the adrift Adelaide to travel across the American South to interesting and beautiful locations to uncover and document horrific secrets that stain dusty floorboards and disturb red clay. Follow Adelaide as we experience the heart and terror of the four stories she chronicles on her dark journey and learn of Adelaide's own heart-stopping secret in this grit-horror anthology feature film: a Southern Horror.
The seemingly possessed device propels the adrift Adelaide to travel across the American South to interesting and beautiful locations to uncover and document horrific secrets that stain dusty floorboards and disturb red clay. Follow Adelaide as we experience the heart and terror of the four stories she chronicles on her dark journey and learn of Adelaide's own heart-stopping secret in this grit-horror anthology feature film: a Southern Horror.
Vignettes & Structure
Vignette 1
Logline TBD.
Vignette 2
This is where we're going to put a nice, tight logline that'll make people want to die to see it.
Vignette 3
This is where we're going to put a nice, tight logline that'll make people want to die to see it.
Vignette 4
This is where we're going to put a nice, tight logline that'll make people want to die to see it.
Structure
A complete frame story, Adelaide's journey, will appear before and after each vignette similar to Asylum (Amicus Productions), Stephen King's Cat's Eye (MGM/UA), or The Mortuary Collection (Trapdoor Pictures).
COMPS & MOODBOARD
Mission
- Leave audiences traumatised and begging their friends and family to watch the film.
- Bring a unique and stereotypically disruptive vision of horror from the southern American experience.
- Support independent and local filmmaking by reinvesting proceeds: (1) future feature films and (2) grants for short films.
TEAM
FINANCIALS
* Flexible Budget: $25k
* depending on crowdfunding stretch goals we may be increase our hire of B-List and SAG actors, more crew, and incentives to crowdfunders.
Timeline
Pre-Production: 2023 Q4 / 2024 Q1
Production: 2024 Q2 - Q3
Post Production: 2024 Q3 / Q4
Release: 2024 Q4
Distribution
- TVOD Rent or purchase via Streaming Platforms.
- SVOD & AVOD Access via Streaming Platforms (Subscription/Ad Revenue)
- Physical Media DVDs and (possibly) VHS collectors version.
FRANCHISE POTENTIAL
The nature of horror anthologies beg to be franchises if they succeed, and we will succeed! The options are open in terms of a second volume as a feature film or series (Twilight Zone format: 2 vignettes per episode however with a frame story).
The American south has a tremendous amount of stories to tell from voices that live here and are often never heard due to lazy and unimaginative reliance on stereotypes and caricatures.
Real voices. Real horror.